More on the Muslim persecution of Christians 513
Human rights groups are too preoccupied with blaming Israel for defending itself against Palestinian terrorists to notice or care what the Muslims are doing to Christians.
Here is another extract from Robert Spencer’s study:
What Justus Reid Weiner, an international human
rights lawyer, stated in December 2007 about Christians
in Palestinian areas applies to Christians in the Islamic
world generally: “The systematic persecution of Christian
Arabs living in Palestinian areas is being met with nearly
total silence by the international community, human rights
activists, the media and NGOs.” He said that if nothing were
done, no Christians would be left there in fifteen years, for
Christian leaders are being forced to abandon their followers
to the forces of radical Islam.”70
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David Horowitz’s Freedom Center has just published a short book on this subject by Robert Spencer, the dependable expert on Islam.
It can be found at Front Page Magazine and needs to be read. This is from the introductory pages:
Fearful of offending Muslim sensibilities, the
international community has averted its gaze
[from the massacre of Christians in Indonesia],
allowing the persecution to take place in the darkness. Nowhere else is
religious bigotry legitimated by holy writ, in this case the
Quran, or by a significant number of religious leaders, in this
case imams. Nowhere else does religious bigotry have such
bloody consequences. Nowhere else does such religious
bigotry take place almost entirely without comment, let
alone condemnation, from the human rights community.
Christian persecution by Muslims has become a familiar
narrative, repeated with terrifying frequency in Muslim
controlled areas throughout the world …